World War I

Extreme nationalism and the system of competing alliances played only a small role in causing World War I.

• True

• False

Which of the following was NOT true of World War I?

• This war had few casualties.

• World War I was fought mostly in trenches

• During this war new technology was extensively used.

• This war developed into a stalemate.

The entry of the United States into World War I, had little effect on ending the war.

• True

• False

Woodrow Wilson, president of the US, proposed a methodology for preventing a future world war.  He called his ideas the

• Declaration for Peace

• Fourteen Points

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty for World Peace

Leader of the communist Bolshevik Party in Russia in 1917.

• Vladimir Lenin

• Joseph Stalin

• Leon Trotsky

• Vladimir Putin

The Bolshevik or Communist Party was pushing for a liberal government that supported a free market economy.

• True

• False

Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne?

• Vladimir Lenin

• Leon Trotsky

• Gavrilo Princip

• Kaiser Wilhelm II

The sinking of this British passenger ship with American citizens aboard precipitated the United States to enter World War I.

• Queen Mary II

• Titanic

• Lusitania

• Queen Elizabeth II

The last Tsar of Russia, who was forced to abdicate at the beginning of the Russian Revolution in 1917 was

• Ivan the Terrible

• Alexander II

• Nicholas II

• Nicholas I

The leader of Germany during World War I was Kaiser Wilhelm II.

• True

• False